Procurement Manager at Rotation and Precision Machines Limited

The Role

• The candidate will treat all RFQ’s requests and source for suppliers and vendors for the company.
• You will be liaising with internal departments and suppliers, analyzing and comparing product samples, and negotiating procurement contracts.

Job Description

• Responsible for developing and tracking standard operating procedures in procurement activities.
• Building and managing a vendor/ supplier management database and SLA adherence tracker
• Agreeing and maintaining SLAs with the sales team for turn-around time for responding to requests.
• Developing and implementing proper purchasing policies, controls, SOPs, and Processes for the department
• Ensuring that all requests are attended to within 48 hours.
• Ensure tracking of all requests via a CRM system to ensure that no request gets forgotten.
• Constantly tracking and ranking all suppliers on pricing, quality, and speed of response to help guide supplier choice.
• Responsible for tracking and ensuring that RPM wins at least 85% of quotations that they
• send to clients.
• Ensuring that the company’s supplier database is kept secure at all times.
• Manage, coach, train, and mentor team members on improved and new procedures and skills.
• Stay informed on the latest industry techniques and methods.
• Develop customer satisfaction goals and coordinate with the team to meet daily goals.
• Sourcing suppliers and maintaining long-lasting relationships with them as well as existing suppliers.
• Obtaining quotes from different suppliers
• Assessing quotes and compiling a detailed assessment of cost breakdowns.
• Source and onboard suppliers to achieve business measures: - Identifying intermediary suppliers and eliminating 80% of intermediary suppliers.
• Generating quote comparisons and contributing to internal supplier selection based on the quotes.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Administration or any related field.
• Minimum of 5 years work experience
• Understand the business of procurement
• Good understanding of margins when pricing
• Must have very good analytical skills (spreadsheet ninja)
• Must have very good people management and issue resolution skills
• Must be focused on order fulfillment and not just on placing orders with suppliers
• Proven experience in Customer service
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook.
• A thorough understanding of sourcing methodologies.
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Sound time-management and organizational skills.